19th Century Ferns: Exquisite Pressed Specimens from New Zealand
A fine antique volume of pressed fern species, 19th century, the cushioned leather bound volume with decoratively arranged pressed specimen foliage, with handwritten binomial nomenclature for each specimen, including many New Zealand ferns and rarities,…
19th Century NZ Fern Album: Cranwell's Botanical Masterpiece
19th century NZ fern album by Thomas Cranwell, with 30 pages of specimens (some af) with pasted in titles beneath each, bound in a carved burr kauri binding, the front cover with central oval title and a fern to each corner with dark green leather spine…
New Zealand Ferns: 19th Century Pressed Specimens and Maori Portraits
'New Zealand Ferns' by Eric Craig, circa 1880. A stunning tome of 153 pressed New Zealand fern specimens attractively displayed and captioned. Title page includes Maori cartes-de-visite portraits and lithograph view 'Scene in Tikitapu Bush Near Ohinemutu'…
Fern Folio: Australian & New Zealand Specimens (1890s)
Australian & New Zealand Ferns: a folio containing 28 leaves, each with a specimen attached; all annotated in manuscript at lower right; circa 1890s.
Seaweeds and Shoreline Plants: Victorian Era Collection
An album (dilapidated) containing pressed/dried examples of seaweeds and shoreline plants, circa 1880s - 1900s., Pastedown to inside front cover, Seaweeds from Victorian Shores Gathered fifty years or more., Weeds! They call US, from the sea, but…
Gilt-lettered New Zealand Ferns Album with Dried Specimens
A good 19th century New Zealand Ferns album, the cover with impressed gilt lettering, containing various dried specimens and annotated in manuscript with their botanical names. Approximately 50 pages.
New Zealand Ferns: Specimen Album
A New Zealand fern album, large folio size, green cloth binding with tooled decoration enclosing 21 leaves mounted with approximately 50 specimens, many named with Latin taxon
New Zealand Ferns Album
A 19th century album 'New Zealand Ferns', the cover boards of mottled kauri, carved with ferns and title, tooled green leather spine, marbled endpapers labelled 'Prepared and Mounted By T. Cranwell, Parnell, Auckland, New Zealand', the pages with dried…
1876 Album of New Zealand Ferns with Carved Kauri Boards
An 1876 album of 'LCC(100) New Zealand Ferns', the boards of mottled kauri, the front carved with fern detail, entitled and dated 1876, banded but totara detail, decorative tooled green leather spine, enclosing marbled papers and label 'Prepared and…
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